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Christmas Countdown: the gravy version December 20, 2012

Here’s one of the best songs about Christmas. Ever. (thanks for the reminder 612 ABC Brisbane)

Christmas Countdown: the feats of strength version

What’s Christmas Countdown without a little bit of Festivus. Classic.

Christmas Countdown: The Mel and Judy version December 17, 2012

Oh Judy and Mel.

Christmas Countdown: the Christmas earrings version December 16, 2012

Every year I swear that I will not be caught up in Christmas fashions. But what did we see yesterday dear readers? That’s correct. A CHRISTMAS SKIRT. Where does it end? Here. With these Christmas earrings that I bought yesterday. I’m sure they’re quite tacky but I bought them anyway and I will most likely […]

Yes we all wear glasses July 15, 2012

The first two weeks of July also happen to have been the first two weeks of the teaching term here. They have whipped by in a flurry of Moodling frustration, parts of speech, sentence structure, emails and discussion forum posts and replies. The only thing that kept me going last week was the knowledge that […]

Yes we all wear glasses

The first two weeks of July also happen to have been the first two weeks of the teaching term here. They have whipped by in a flurry of Moodling frustration, parts of speech, sentence structure, emails and discussion forum posts and replies. The only thing that kept me going last week was the knowledge that […]

Acceptable: 7/10 for discipline June 4, 2012

Last night I went to my parents for dinner and because I’ve been working with my lovely group on our proposal for a local history cultural heritage collection I asked about a photo I remember seeing in an album of my grandma’s. My dear mum went and dug it out. It’s a photo of my […]

Wendy gets involved in exciting things: the crowd sourcing post June 1, 2012

So I was working away on my Collections Management assignment, doing some research and reading about crowd sourcing in libraries when I got totally distracted and inspired. I follow Amanda Palmer on twitter. For weeks and weeks I had been watching her tweets and retweets her kick-starter project roll by. Sure I’d taken notice but […]

Wendy gets involved in exciting things: the crowd sourcing post

So I was working away on my Collections Management assignment, doing some research and reading about crowd sourcing in libraries when I got totally distracted and inspired. I follow Amanda Palmer on twitter. For weeks and weeks I had been watching her tweets and retweets her kick-starter project roll by. Sure I’d taken notice but […]

Let’s go fly a kite March 3, 2012

A couple of weekends ago I made the trek to Brisbane to see Mary Poppins. Not in person obviously. She’s a fictional character. Rather, this was the musical. Much lauded. Much praised. I had been told by many people that I would “love” it. So I was looking forward to seeing it but I was […]